"life" is a 2002 Japanese movie [[directed|Film director]] by [[Shinohara Tetsuo]] starring [[Esumi Makiko]] and [[Etsushi Toyokawa]]. It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author [[Yu Miri]].
Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal cancer, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."
